Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prize of pound 50 is offered for the best poem on Derry Cathedral. The composition may be in any recognized measure, and is not to exceed 120 lines. The author is requested to conceal his name; but each poem is to be distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope endorsed with the motto, containing the competitor's name. An entrance fee of ten shillings is to be forwarded with each poem. While it is desirable that reference should be made to religious and historical associations, the adjudication will be decided by poetical merit alone...
...addition, on the opposite side, a specimen sumons-card under the old regime, labelled, "The good old chestnut; " and on the end, comparative statistics showing the inroads of the diseases in question made during the compulsory system. The opposite side of the roof bore the motto - "College Cooler; Usual Term. 15 Minutes...
...unique transparency bore this motto...
...ballots cast for '88 members of the yard committee yesterday, bore the names of the three coxswains in that class, and below the motto, "Non Marte sed Arte...
...Potter sustains the Harvard students. He remarks : To those who object to the students' petition that to grant it would be to violate the purposes for which the college was founded, as expressed in the motto on its seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, the petitioners may reply that the oldest college seal, the one nearest the foundation of the college, had the simple but comprehensive motto, Veritas; and in the name of truth, they make their petition. Or, if the incongrous present seal be still held across their request, it would be in order for them to remind the objectors that...